The Secrets of Magazine Cover Design: Key Ingredients

This will help me when I'm creating my magazine as I can refer to these conventions and know what the key ingredients are for a magazine front cover.

The Brief

Preliminary Exercise: Using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally you must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.


An example of a college magazine.